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Nanoparticles for immunotherapy

Eleonora Simeoni, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Conlin O'Neil, Sai Reddy

Nanoparticles that activate complement in the absence of biological molecules are described. The nanoparticles are shown to specifically target antigen presenting cells in specifically in lymph nodes, without the use of a biological molecule for targeting. ...

2010

Ph.D. Research Proposal: Biomimetic Characteristics of an Active Deployable Structure

Sinan Korkmaz

Biomimetic structures are structures that demonstrate increased functionality through mimicking qualities of biological organisms. Self-repair and adaptation mechanisms are examples of biological qualities that can be adapted in structural engineering. Ove ...

EPFL2009

Biological and Potential Therapeutic Roles of Sirtuin Deacetylases

Sirtuins comprise a unique class of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+))-dependent deacetylases that target multiple protein substrates to execute diverse biological functions. These enzymes are key regulators of clinically important cellular and org ...

Springer Verlag2008

Physical constraints affecting bacterial habitats and activity in unsaturated porous media – a review

Dani Or

The immense diversity of microbial life found in the vadose zone reflects the extremely heterogeneous and highly dynamic aquatic and chemical environments formed within soil pore spaces. The notion of planktonian free swimming microbes is unrealistic under ...

2007

Self-replicating hardware for reliability: The embryonics project

Daniel Mange, Joël Rossier, Pierre-André Mudry

The multicellular structure of biological organisms and the interpretation in each of their cells of a chemical program (the DNA string or genome) is the source of inspiration for the Embryonics (embryonic electronics) project, whose final objective is the ...

2007

Hardware/Software Coevolution of Genome Programs and Cellular Processors

Guillaume Zufferey, Pierre-André Mudry

The application of evolutionary techniques to the design of custom processing elements bears a strong relation to the natural process that led to the co-evolution of cells and genomes in biological organisms. As such, it is an interesting avenue for an eff ...

2006

Metabolic networks: enzyme function and metabolite structure

Vassily Hatzimanikatis

A review and discussion. Metab. is one of the most complex cellular processes. Connections between biochem. reactions via substrate and product metabolites create complex metabolic networks that may be analyzed using network theory, stoichiometric anal., a ...

2004

Monitoring expression and clustering of the ionotropic 5HT3 receptor in plasma membranes of live biological cells

Horst Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Horst Pick, Michael Mayer

The ionotropic 5HT3 receptor was expressed in transiently transfected mammalian cells, yielding an unprecedented high concn. of up to 12 million receptors per cell. Receptor traffic in the plasma membrane of live cells was obsd. continuously over 24 h by f ...

2003

Supply-demand balance and metabolic scaling

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan

It is widely accepted that metabolic rates scale across species approximately as the 3/4 power of mass in most if not all groups of organisms. Metabolic demand per unit mass thus decreases as body mass increases. Metabolic rates reflect both the ability of ...

2002

Voronoi diagrams on piecewise flat surfaces and an application to biological growth

Thomas Liebling, Marc Troyanov

This paper introduces the notion of Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations generated by the vertices of a piecewise flat, triangulated surface. Based on properties of such structures, a generalized flip algorithm to construct the Delaunay triangulati ...

2001

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